Permissive
Permissive works can be shared both in original form and after being adapted, though with some conditions.
Public domain works are very permissive, since there are no copyright restrictions on their use. They are not listed here, however.
Another term for permissive is 'copyfree'.
Openness: Libre
Works
- 100 CC BY Hits ● A hundred libre songs.
- 365 Sketches ● A blog with a new sketch each day.
- A Spark in Fate Core ● 'This is an expansion of the (soon to be) award winning Fate Core, focussing on the process of collaborative world building. It includes some of the concepts found in The Spark RPG and helps you build an engaging setting with a history, fraught with danger and potential for growth.'
- A Vessel For Offering ● 'Hard boiled pseudo-Lovecraftian space noir with squishy (and doomed, of course) romantic bits.'
- A World of Fire and Sand ● A freeform game. The author says "I got so excited by the Dark Sun campaign setting‘s calendar that I wrote a totally different"
- Abulafia ● A collection of random concept and word generators for story gamers.
- Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence ● '[R]ecommends a programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research.'
- AdventureLand ● 'AdventureLand is a small, 4 pages RPG [written] in a hurry (about 6 hours) for advanced role-players.'
- Aerogel.org ● '[A]n encyclopedic reference about aerogels, how-to guides for making aerogels and building a do-it-yourself supercritical dryer, the world's most comprehensive aerogel image gallery, a podcast with the world's leading aerogel scientists, and more.'
- Against Intellectual Property ● 'Kinsella [argues] that the very existence of patents are contrary to a free market, and adds in here copyrights and trademarks too.'
- Arkfall ● A World of Dungeons hack that allows you to play post-apoc sci-fi.
- Atlas of Living Australia ● 'The Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.'
- Australian Budget 2012-2013 ● The federal government budget and budget overview for 2012-2013.
- Australian Census 2011 ● 'Census DataPacks contain comprehensive data about people, families and dwellings for all available geographic areas, with associated Geographic Information System digital boundary files.'
- Australian Government Intellectual Property Manual ● Government guidelines for implementing 'open licensing'.
- AutoWar ● Tabletop Game set in a wastland with cars
- Baba Yaga's Dancing Hut ●
- Bad Habits ● A Fiasco playset about backstabbing nuns.
- Bank Robbery LARP ● A LARP about bank robbery which doesn't quite work.
- Beginning Titan - The distributed graph database ● "Beginning Titan is a comprehensive guide to Titan database."
- BibServer ● 'BibServer is a tool for quickly and easily sharing collections of bibliographic metadata.'
- Big Buck Bunny ● A whimsical movie where three rodents get their just deserts.
- Big Buck Bunny Loves Creative Commons ● Why Creative Commons matters.
- Boundless ● Textbooks.
- Bounty Hunters, Map Makers & Gold Diggers ● Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws
- Caminandes ● 'Inspired by the good old Chuck Jones cartoons, this -very- short movie shows the problems a little guanaco (llama cousin) has when trying to cross the roads of Southern Patagonia, in South America.'
- Centre for Policy Development ● A thinktank.
- Choosing an OSS license doesn’t need to be scary ● A guide to choosing a licence.
- Cookbook ● Reflections on preparing a crowdsourced FLO textbook.
- Copyright for Librarians ● '"Copyright for Librarians" (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.'
- Copyright in Databases in Australia ● An article on the circumstances under which copyright would apply to databases.
- Copyright Week ● A project from the EFF about problems with copyright.
- #COPYWRONG ● Facts about how Australian copyright law is out of touch.
- Crash!/Lanterns of The Dead ● "Crash / Lanterns of the Dead is two game in one: a game about a crashed astronaut, and a game about an alien culture."
- Creative Commons & Government Guide ● A guide to using Creative Commons licensing in government.
- D6Pool ● A tabletop RPG set in modern times.
- Death Takes A Holiday ● When Death takes a holiday, a hapless family of ghosts must shepherd the dearly departed.
- Deep Freeze: Iceland's Economic Collapse ● 'In Deep Freeze, economists Philipp Bagus and David Howden demonstrate that the real cause of the calamity was bad central bank policy.'
- Department Nine ● Oracular spies fighting the future and Greek myths.
- Destiny System ● A universal RPG.
- Dice Icons ● Dice icons.
- Digital Public Library of America ● 'The DPLA is leading the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all.'
- Doodles & Dragons ● 'n celebration of finishing my year-long effort to draw a cartoon of every single monster in the 2nd Edition AD&D Monstrous Manual, I made a PDF containing a one page World of Dungeons hack along with every one of my cartoons.'
- Dragon 2000 All You Can Eat ● A shady Chinese restaurant is the setting for a Fiasco playset.
- DramaSystem SRD ● The basic system of the Hillfolk RPG.
- Dscript ● A new Roman script.
- Dulse ● A game about relationships, ideals, and the choices we make to preserve or destroy them.
- Dungeon Squad 2 ● A fantasy RPG designed for quick play and no fuss.
- Dungeon World ● An RPG based on Apocalypse World for dungeoncrawling adventure.
- Ed Startup 101 ● 'Ed Startup is designed to acquaint educators, educational researchers, and others to the world of entrepreneurship and intrapeneurship, help you decide which one is right for you, and support you in the first steps of your journey.'
Sources
- Against Monopoly ● A blog on intellectual property.
- Al Jazeera ● CC-licensed, media-quality footage.
- Argofox ● Royalty free music.
- audionautix ● Free production music.
- Australian Digital Alliance ● An Australian body providing a 'balanced voice' in copyright discussions.
- Australian Electoral Commission ● The government body that supervises and manages elections.
- Australian Government ● The government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
- Authors Alliance ● 'The Authors Alliance embraces the unprecedented potential digital networks have for the creation and distribution of knowledge and culture. We represent the interests of authors who want to harness this potential to share their creations more broadly in order to serve the public good.'
- Bill Brown ● A designer and artist.
- Blend Swap ● 'Proudly the greatest repository of open source blends on the Tubes.'
- Blender Foundation ● Creators of the 3D graphics/video software Blender and films using Blender.
- ccMixter ● ccMixter is a site for Creative Commons remixes. You can listen to the music, but also sample and mash-up it.
- Connexions ● An open education repository.
- Creationistas ● A lobbying site in favour of fair use.
- Creative Commons ● A non-profit organisation devoted to increasing the number of works available for all to share and adapt.
- D101 Games ● A small press RPG company.
- Daniel Kwon ● A video creator.
- Daniel Solis ● An artist and game designer.
- Dan-O ● 'Hi, I'm Dan-O and I post my original music as free MP3 downloads here on DanoSongs.com.'
- data.gov.au ● 'Data.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government and state and territory governments.'
- data.gv.at ● Data from the Austrian government.
- David K Levine ● An author.
- David Revoy ● David Revoy is a fantasy artist who has worked on the Blender movie projects.
- Delubrum ● The designer's own fonts and links to others.
- dilly daily draws ● 'daily drawings (or paintings) of Filipe Dilly'
- Directory of Open Access Journals ● 'Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals.'
- Electronic Frontier Foundation ● 'Defending your rights in the digital world'
- Engage 2012 ● A video-making competition.
- Evil Mad Scientist Shop ● 'DIY and open source hardware for art, education, and world domination.'
- featurin.gs ● 'Featurin.gs allows you to collaborate with gifted artists in a fun & easy way, to merge your music with professional videos and to boost your audience.'
- Foodista ● A recipe site.
- Freebase ● A repository of structured data.
- Game-icons.net ● 'Hundreds of free icons to customize and include in your games'
- Global Voices ● A network of bloggers.
- Glyphicons ● 'GLYPHICONS is a library of precisely prepared monochromatic icons and symbols, created with an emphasis on simplicity and easy orientation.'
- iCommons ● "iCommons is a registered UK charity that promotes collaboration among proponents of open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world."
- I'M FRESH! YOU'RE PRETTY! ● Musicians.
- Incompetech ● Royalty-free music
- Italian Government ● A government.
- Jason Morningstar ● Game designer for Bully Pulpit Games.
- Jeff Moore ● An RPG author.
- Jeff Preston ● An artist.
- Jonathan Mann ● Wrote a song a day; now over 1700.
- Josh Woodward ● Josh Woodward writes and sings acoustic rock.
- Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication ● "The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication is a quarterly, peer-reviewed open-access publication for original articles, reviews and case studies that analyze or describe the strategies, partnerships and impact of library-led digital projects, online publishing and scholarly communication initiatives."
- Journal of Sustainable Development ● A transdisciplinary international journal published monthly.
- Juanitos ● Retro boogie music.
- La Scuola in Chiaro ● Data about Italian education.
- Lawrence Liang ● A lawyer.
- LectureLeaks ● A site that encourages students to post recordings of their lectures.
- @ccess ● An OKFN project to encourage libre open access.
- FATE ● A game system based on the mechanic: dice roll + invoked and tagged Aspects.
- Rusałka ● A "GMless game of tragic fairy tales"
- The First 100 Days of Government ● The Abbott Liberal Government's assessment of what it has achieved in its first 100 days.
- Who Needs Access? You Need Access ● An OKFN project to increase open access.
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